Kearney Public Library (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
KEARNEY — Kearney Public Library and UNK-Music Department welcome you to the Notes at Noon music series Wednesday, Jan. 24 from noon-1 pm.
Add some music to your day with Musical Calamities performed by Franziska Brech on flute and Clark Potter on violin and viola. The concert will feature music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Josef Haydn. Franziska Brech, a native of Munich, Germany, has presented recitals in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and the USA, after finishing a performance degree at the Robert Schumann Institute for Music in Düsseldorf, Germany, studying with Michael Faust.
She has been a member of several symphony orchestras in Germany as well as in the United States.
Currently she teaches flute and German at UNK and is a member of the Kearney Symphony Orchestra as well as the UNK Woodwind Quintet, the Flubano Trio (flute, tuba and piano), and the Highfalutin flute group. Clark Potter is Professor of Viola at the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where he is also on the conducting faculty.
He is the director of NEBratsche (the UNL viola ensemble), and he is an active performer as a solo recitalist and chamber musician.
Mr. Potter has conducted the Lincoln Youth Symphony since 2007 and has conducted that ensemble in Rome, Prague, Budapest, Dresden, Leipzig, Vienna, Dublin and Belfast. He is also a member of three chamber ensembles: the Nebraska Chamber Players, the Trans-Nebraska Players, and the newly formed UNL faculty ensemble, Una Corda.
After 26 years, Mr. Potter recently retired as principal viola of the Lincoln Symphony. This program is free and open to the public so bring your lunch and listen!
This collaborative program is presented by UNK-Music Department, and the Kearney Public Library. Check out our web site at www.cityofkearney.org